Earl,

Lots of truth here! When I graduated as a E.E. in 1987 engineering
was a respectable profession. Now we are just an expense item that
needs to be reduced by off-shoring to India and China. The current
crop of CEOs are mostly MBAs without a clue as to where all the
product they are currently selling came from... or maybe they just
don't care. If I were entering college right now, I don't think that
I would want to go through the expense and hard work of an engineering
curriculum with such an uncertain return on investment waiting for me
in corporate America. That's why American students are staying away
from engineering right now...

Dean

"Earl Grieda" wrote in message ink.net...
"Chris" wrote in message
...
So, what do you think the next X prize will bring? First privately
funded re-usable spacecraft to orbit the earth? To the moon? Looks like
this is gearing up to be the next big economy 'boom'

It will be interesting. However, its to bad that greedy American CEOs have
ruined engineering as a profession so much that now American schools
graduate less and less engineers each year, and of those graduates many are
foreign born. Perhaps the Chinese and Indians will do well. Once they rule
space they will rule the planet. But we can provide the marketing fluff.

Earl G